Thought this might interest some ...
Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains, and Victors from the Robert Lesser
Collection
May 15-October 19, 2003 Brooklyn Museum of Art
<http://www.brooklynmuseum.org>
(Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th floor)
This exhibition presents more than 100 now rare paintings
created for the covers of popular-fiction magazines in the
first half of the twentieth century. Pulp Art, which will
tour to venues to be announced, has been organized for the
Brooklyn Museum of Art by guest curator Anne Pasternak,
Executive Director of Creative Time. Many of the paintings in
the exhibition, most of them from the 1930s and 1940s, will
be presented alongside the printed magazine covers for which
they were made. Often melodramatic, even lurid, these images
were intended to catch the eye as dozens of magazines
competed for attention on crowded newsstands. Called
"pulp" fiction because of the cheap paper on which they were
printed, the magazines had titles such as Famous Fantastic
Mysteries, The Shadow, Doc Savage, Thrilling Wonder Stories,
and Terror Tales. The exhibition will examine how these works
illuminate the popular culture of the interwar years and
reveal the deep-seated fears and concerns of different
segments of society during an era of sweeping change.
Joe D.
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